Westar 1

  1974-022A

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The Westar 1 satellite was the first US domestic comsat. The HS-333 class C-band commercial satellite was owned and operated by the Western Union Telegraph Co. from 1974 to 1983. The TT&C station was at Glenwood,NJ.

Westar 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1974 Apr 13	2333:03	Launch by Delta 2914	CC LC17
		T+0:38 SRM 1-6 out
		T+0:39 SRM 7-9 on
		T+1:17 SRM 7-9 out
		T+1:27 SRM 1-9 sep
	2336:48	T+3:45 MECO
	2337	T+3:56 St 1 sep, 132 km
	2337:04	T+4:01 SES-1 5:17
		T+4:35 Fairing
	2342:21	T+8:54 St 2 SECO-1, 216 km, parking orbit 7.772km/s
	2355:40	T+22:37 St 2 sep, 231 km, 7.742km/s
	2356:18	T+23:15 Star 37E burn 44s?
	2357:02?	T+23:59 Star 37E burnout
	2358:17?	T+25:15 Star 37E sep	230 x 36238 x 24.7
		SES-2 0:01 engineering
		SECO-2
1974 Apr 16	2121	AKM 42s	GEO +5.2E/d
1974 May		On station	GEO 99W
1975 Dec			GEO 99W (Morgan)
1977 Jan 20			1436.11 35764 x 35808 x 0.0 GEO 99.1W
1979 Nov 14			1436.11 35776 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 99.0W
1981 Jan 1			1436.10 35777 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 99.0W
1982 Jan 3			1436.11 35780 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 99.0W
1982 Feb 3			1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 99.1W
1982 Mar		Move to 100W
1982 Mar 7			1436.12 35774 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 100.1W
1982 Mar 29			1436.11 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 100.1W
1982 Apr		Replaced by Westar 4	GEO 99W
1982 Apr		Mv. out of GEO
1982 Apr 15			1435.49 35760 x 35789 x 0.1 GEO 97.6W+0.1
1982 May		In reserve	GEO 97W
1982 May 29			1436.10 35784 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 97.0W
1982 Sep 1			1436.10 35783 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 97.0W
1982 Oct 4			1436.18 35781 x 35794 x 0.1 GEO 79.0W
1982 Oct		In reserve at 79W
1983 Apr 20			1436.15 35779 x 35796 x 0.3 GEO 79.0W
1983 Apr 21		Mv out	1438.63 35829 x 35843 x 0.4
1983 Apr 27		Raise orbit	1439.98 35846 x 35878 x 0.4
1983 May 2		Raise orbit	1441.34 35863 x 35914 x 0.4
1983 Jun 15		Decommissioned
1987 Mar 29			1441.30 35851 x 35925 x 4.0
1990 Jan 2			1441.57 35879 x 35908 x 6.6
1993 Apr 19			1441.60 35866 x 35921 x 9.4
1995 Nov 10			1441.58 35855 x 35931 x 11.1
1998 Aug 2			1441.32 35841 x 35936 x 12.4